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The Flute Player / Lucas Vorsterman, the elder [artwork]

Title: The Flute Player [artwork]
Artist: Vorsterman, Lucas, the elder, 1595-1675
Genre: artwork
Date Created: 17th century
Physical Description: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26.1 x 19.0 cm.)
Artist notes: after a painting by Otto Vorsterman, painter, 17th century
Artist nationality: Flemish
Artist role: draughtsman and engraver
Original artist: Vorsterman, Otto, 17th century
Inscription: Recto: u. l.: (engraved monogram) OV ; u. r.: (engraved monogram) LV ; bottom center: (four lines of engraved script beneath image, in Dutch, two top lines first, then two bottom lines) Veel hebben hun vermaeck op dit of dat te speelen / Tsÿ sÿter oft Luÿt Basconter oft veelen; / Maer ick Segh voor mÿn part en houde voor gewis, / Dat t spel op de pÿp ver het beste van al is ; l. r.: L. Vorsterma ; verso: l. l. (in pencil) C575/199 and (upside down, in pencil) 004215.14
Medium: Engraving.
Condition: Fine condition. The engraving has been relined with a paper backing. It has been trimmed to the edge of the plate impression and just beneath the inscription. There are losses at the lower left and right corners, which have been mended.
Provenance: Probably The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 6 Apr. 1939.
Instrument: Flute
Century: 17th century
Subject: Musician - Single player
Miller category: Works of art - - Single Players
Miller ID: 0605/L
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Last Updated: 07-07-2010

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